Success Stories from Dalanzadgad Umnugobi Polytechnic College (UPC)
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Success Stories of the UPC Graduates
Skilling the youth of Mongolia has a high
potential to contribute to the human
development and economic growth of the
country. Since 2013, the “Cooperative
Vocational Training Programme” (CVT), funded
by the German, Australian and Swiss
government implemented in cooperation with
national and international partners, has been
working to renew relevant and demand oriented
vocational training programmes and capacitate
its partners, TVET schools and companies to
improve quality in training provision in Mongolia.
Human capacity development (HCD) measures in Mongolia | Photo: Dirk Ostermeier
The success stories published in this brochure
are from the Umnugobi Polytechnic College
(UPC). The development of this college is a
mainly Australian-Aid funded component of the
programme. A good technical and vocational
training and therewith better employability after
graduation is crucial to start a prosperous life for
young people. Especially by enabling people
with various backgrounds, the CVT programme
can have a great impact on individual lives as
well as on the Mongolian population by reducing
poverty among vulnerable groups.
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Improved skill is a gate to better employment
opportunity
More women should choose technical education!
Jargalbayar Erdenebaatar has completed a
one-year welding course at the Umnugobi Polytechnic
College between 2016 and 2017. Four months after
his graduation, he succeeded in getting full-time
employment at the Umnugobi’s Thermal Power Plant
as a machinist
of thermal equipment machinery. Today he earns up
to 900’000MNT every month. He believes having
technical skills gives a lot of opportunity for
employment. He also highly recommends TVET
courses to his friends.
Oyu Enkhbold, is one of the female welders at
BBH LLC, a contractor company to Oyu Tolgoi LLC.
With her Bachelor Degree in Commerce, she actively
searched for employment opportunity. After 9 months
upon grad- uation with no success finding
employment she decided to enroll in one-year
welding course at Umnugobi Poly- technic College.
She then received scholarship for female
students and successfully found employment right
after completion of her welding course. “Skilled
workers are highly in demand in the labor market”
she said. Now her monthly income is over 1million
MNT and she has been always employed since
graduating at Umnugobi Polytechnic College.
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The journey from a student to a teacher
Munkhjargal Nyam-Osor, earlier on
student of Umnugobi Polytechnic College’s one-year
welding course for adults, is now a welding teacher
at his former college. He was born and raised in
Dundgobi. In 2006, he developed an interest in
technical skills and started a short course in
plumbing at a private training center. Since then, he
worked at various construction sites doing plumbing
and welding jobs. In 2015, he
took one-year welding course at Umnugobi PC, which
was the starting point for his welding teacher career at
the Polytechnic College. “Technical skilled workers
are highly demanded in the labour market. For
example: Our students are being well prepared and
work at companies such Oyu Tolgoi LLC.” he says.
He now promotes the courses he teaches to his
friends and family proudly.
Technical skills have a
high demand in the job
market Uuganbaatar Bat-Erdene, damp operator at
Tremun Concrete LLC has started working while he
was still studying in a one-year Heavy Duty
Machinery Operator course at the Umnugobi
Polytechnic College.
He was born and raised in a herder’s family in
Umnugobi. “In Mongolia, especially in Umnugobi,
Mining is big and therefore skilled workers are always
demanded” he said. He earns 1.5 million to 1.8 million
MNT every month. Most of his friends are likeminded
and graduated from Polytechnic Colleges.
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Hearing disability did not stop me
PR officer to welder
Tulga Jargalsaikhan, is now a welder at Oyu
Tol- goi Construction LLC, who has a story of drastic
change in his career. He has bachelor’s degree in
journalism from Mongolian National University of
Education. Upon graduation, he worked as a Public
Relations officer at the
Despite his hearing problem, Tuvshintogkh Baasanjav works as a damp operator at Terra
Energy LLC. After graduating from high school, he
enrolled into Umnugobi Polytechnic College’s one-
year Heavy-Duty Machinery Operator course. Upon
graduation, he got accepted to the first job he
applied for. He believes skilled
workers are highly in demand because of the mining
devel- opment in Mongolia. He was born and raised in
a herder’s family with his little brothers. He
recommends his friends and family to go to
Polytechnic College and now his broth- ers are all
students in Polytechnic College, so that very soon his
herder’s family will turn to a skilled workers’ family.
Umnugobi office. After 2 years of working – he
decided to pursue welding and joined Umnugobi
Polytechnic College’s one-year welding course for
adults to become a welder, who now earns between
1.4million to 1.6 million every month.
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Technical skills matter!
Bayarmunkh Batbaatar is a welder at
MCS Group’s “Underground mining construction”
project
for Oyu Tolgoi LLC. He has a Bachelor Degree in
Mining Technology Usage Engineering from
Gazarchin Univer- sity. After graduation he worked for
3 years at the Tavan Tolgoi Coal Mine. While working
there, Bayarmunkh took one-year welding course at
Umnugobi Polytechnic College to further his career.
The programme gave him new certified skills. With
these skills and certification he got a job with a
monthly income between 2 million and 4 mil- lion
MNT, which is much higher than the average salary in
Mongolia. He says “If someone tries and puts in good
amount of effort – welders are very highly demanded
in the industry”.
IMPROVED SKILLS
A WAY TO SUCCESS